Launched by JetBlue (JBLU) and Azul Brazilian Airlines veteran David Neeleman in 2021, Salt Lake City-based Breeze Airways is an ultra-low-cost airline that quickly built out a customer base offering flights between secondary cities that often go underserved by mainstream airlines.
As of September 2025, the airline listed just under 80 destinations such as New York’s Islip, Ohio’s Akron, and California’s Orange County on its website. In June 2025, Neeleman also said that taking the airline public through an initial public offering (IPO) was something for which “there could be a window” in the coming year contingent on market conditions and the carrier’s valuation.
After more than a year of seeking regulator approval to go beyond the U.S. and launch its first international flights, Breeze just announced that it will be launching its first spate of flights to Mexico and the Caribbean in 2026.
Breeze Airways to launch new Mexico flights from Virginia, Charleston
The weekly flights to Cancun from Virginia’s Norfolk and South Carolina’s Charleston will start running on January 10 and 17 while another flight to the resort city from New Orleans and Rhode Island’s Providence will follow with respective start dates of Feb. 7 and 14.
Flights between Jamaica’s Montego Bay from Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina and Tampa in Florida as well as Raleigh-Durham and Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic will also be added to Breeze’s network a few weeks later in February and March. The flights to Jamaica and the Dominican Republic will run twice a week while the ones to Cancun will run weekly from each city.
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“We’re ecstatic today,” Norfolk International Airport Authority President Mark Perryman said in a statement on the new route to Cancun from the city. “This is a long-time coming: being able to fly directly from here to Cancun and not have to go through New York, Atlanta, Chicago, or somewhere to get to those destinations. It’s all about timing and being able to just enjoy yourself in Cancun.”
Breeze Airways started operations in May 2021.
Breeze Airways
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The airline also announced plans to expand its base in Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU) by hiring 200 pilots and flight attendants to work out of there. In his statement on the new routes and expansion plans, Neeleman called Raleigh-Durham a “natural fit” as a mid-sized city with strong market demand for more direct flights to popular holiday destinations.
To promote the new routes, Breeze is offering early sale rates starting at $99 in each direction for those who book by October 1 and travel between the start of the route and May 12, 2026 on certain mid-week dates.
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The flights will run on the Airbus A220-300 (EADSF) planes of which the airline recently took possession as part of its lease from High Ridge Aviation to expand its flight schedule and network to more cities.
The aircraft’s range of 3,800 nautical miles would allow Breeze to run flights to farther destinations; over the last year, Breeze executives have floated the idea of eventually launching flights to cities such as Reykjavik and London as the carrier begins expanding internationally.